Pear-shaped instruments
The crossword clue "Pear-shaped instruments" is answered by LUTES, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LUTES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LUTES answer page.
Used 20 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LUTES
Every other clue in this collection answered by LUTES, most used first.
- Stringed instruments - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Minstrels' instruments - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Renaissance instruments - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Plucked instruments - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Troubadours' instruments - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Cousins of mandolins - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Mandolin relatives - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Mandolins' cousins - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Egg-shaped - OVATE, used 228 times
- Egg-shaped - OVOID, used 123 times
- Ring-shaped reef - ATOLL, used 78 times
- Pear variety - ANJOU, used 58 times
- Rainbow-shaped - ARCED, used 55 times
- S-shaped moldings - OGEES, used 50 times
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